Undergraduate Summer Internships

This programme is specifically for our second year undergraduate students. It takes place over the summer months and offers employers in the East Midlands the chance to take on an intern in order to fulfil a shorter project.

You can take on a graduate from a variety of degree disciplines to work on a specific project or work on a variety of areas within your organisation. Past examples of internship projects have included devising marketing strategies and materials, website design, developing a database, developing a business strategy, market research, design engineering activities and much more.

All graduate internships are eight weeks in length (two months). During that period the graduate works full-time (37.5 hours a week) for your organisation on the designated project or tasks. The earliest such an internship could commence would be late June 2011. The programme runs to October 2011.

The benefits

We aim to make the process as simple as possible with little paperwork:

• The Work-related Learning Team do all the short-listing of candidates (initial sift) and forward you only the strongest CV and covering letter applications.
• We pay the student/graduate directly after we receive your invoice payment. This means you do not have to worry about payroll administration, saving you time.
• Because we package the internship as a training programme, you do not pay National Insurance or tax, saving you money.
• Quality assurance - you will receive a mid-term visit from a representative of the University of Leicester to check how the internship is progressing.
• This is a low-cost and risk-free way to trial a potential employee over the course of three months. There is no requirement or expectation for you to offer the intern a job at the end of the internship.

Interested? Contact us today

workrelatedlearning@le.ac.uk or call us on 0116 252 5232